Ganymed sents out Wailord and Whiscash.
I 1HKO the Wailord with Acrobatics, and Eruption on Whiscash as a resisted Eruption still hits alot harder than a neutral EP/DP (168 Vs. 90).
The Whiscash goes down to ~45% and uses Muddy Water, dropping my accuaracy on both Tornadus and Heatran. Then Ganymed sents out Donphan who's Quick Claw activates and CH's my Tornadus with Stone Edge (Now that Crit didn't matter but I feel like mentioning it), while Whiscash avoids my Eruption and rests. I sent in Blastoise while the fucking Donphan's Quick Claw activates again Earthquakes my Pokémon. I Hidden Power the Whiscash for the 1HKO and Ganymed sents out Walrein(!). I sent out Scizor, BP Donphan, and kill it. Blastoise Hidden Powers Walrein and leaves it at around 80%. The Walrein uses Fissure on my Blastoise and hits it. Scizor Bug Bite's Walrein on the next turn (Which was a 2HKO from there). The Walrein uses Fissure again and kills my Scizor..

Now THAT my friends, was the biggest bullshit battle I've had so far in the Subway. The team I'm running now however does very well and is for keeps. If it didn't play this fast (4.5 streaks in an hour on average) I probably wouldn't even bother to keep playing anymore.

I spoilered the team in case you're interested. I'm going to stick with this for a while as I feel like this team has alot more potentional than the #109 streak I have now.

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Quick question, but are there any advantages of running Thundurus over its Therian form assuming that I'm abusing Drizzle for 100 acc Mindless Thunder spam? I'm really tempted by the ginormous SpAtk stat and volt absorb which works well with politoed. Thanks again and good luck with your streaks everyone! :D

Quick question, but are there any advantages of running Thundurus over its Therian form assuming that I'm abusing Drizzle for 100 acc Mindless Thunder spam? I'm really tempted by the ginormous SpAtk stat and volt absorb which works well with politoed. Thanks again and good luck with your streaks everyone! :D

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Thundurus Incarnate has two advantages, more speed and Prankster. If you have a revenge killer for faster threats and don't plan on using support moves (ie Tailwind) then Thundurus-T is probably a better bet. As you mentioned, Volt Absorb can be really helpful with Poli as it's partner as well as any other Electric weak pokes you may use. I'd suggest Thund-T @ Sash Timid 252SpAtk 252Spd 4Def- Thunder|Focus Blast|HP Ice|Grass Knot.

and in only 21 battles, I must've ran into four Empoleons, aka full stops to that Latios. I swapped Calm Mind for Thunderbolt and I'm currently at a 42 streak with the team, but the interesting thing is that I haven't seen a single Empoleon in those 42 battles. Similarly, I used to use Hydreigon a lot and saw a ton of Poliwrath (forced Draco Meteor or switch) and Empoleon again (before BW2 and the Earth Power tutor). Another instance is when I used an Eviolite Machoke and fought Persim Kingdra leads (which are basically a one-to-one tradeoff guarantee - 2HKOed by DynamicPunch, but two Outrages leave Machoke basically dead) twice in a row, with a few more appearing elsewhere.

With this in mind, the main question: Has there been any proof that opponent's Pokemon are generated based at least partially on what Pokemon you are using? This seems to be the general pattern for me at least, and I made one of my most successful Subway teams based on this (using lead Magnezone to bait Fighting-, Fire-, and Ground-types to be generated so Slowbro and Dragonite could take advantage of them: I posted about this a while ago; it got me into the 60s for the first time). Maybe it's just luck of the draw, but I'm just curious because that's a lot of coincidences.

Btw I really just posted the team as a reference for the story, but if there's anything that stands out that can be improved, I'm fine with taking suggestions.

After Power Trick and Shell Smash (Power Trick HAS to go first because the boosts aren't swapped), Shuckle has 1240 Attack and 228 Speed, and SilverPowder Bug Bite OHKOs most opponents (I used Bug Bite because it was Shuckle's most powerful attack that has 100 accuracy and that nothing is immune to). Sturdy protects me from priority attacks and provides a safety net against certain forms of hax (Brightpowder, Quick Claw, etc).

I paired it up with Durant + Garchomp, similar to NoCheese, except I ran Baton Pass over X-Scissor on my Durant as a way of escaping from Magnet Pull + Volt Switch Magnezone. The teams works well, although Ice teams are dangerous (Hail breaks Sturdy, so a Hail lead followed by something with Ice Shard is scary). I kept Iron Head on Durant for this reason, although it isn't the best solution to the problem.

Brightpowder activated and Gothitelle copied all of my boosts with Psych Up. That's ok, I thought, because I still have Sturdy... except Brightpowder activated again as it hits me with Psychic. Gothitelle then swept my team with Psychic using the boosts it stole from me. I'm pretty sure I've lost to this Gothitelle before thanks to that Brightpowder, which it obviously holds because it is the only way it can ever be a threat.

This will probably be the last team I make for the Subway. Hopefully X+Y will create a new facility. The Subway was a huge step-up from the Battle Tower of the older generations (in terms of difficulty) and it will be interesting to see what they do next.

2 Questions...
1. I am playing White 1. But I am using Entrainment Durant. My records would go under B2W2, right? Or would they not count at all?
2. Are legal hacks allowed? Or must the mons be RNG'ed?
Thanks :P

If you take a look on the other pictures ( if you scroll down ) .. I only think ... Legal or not legal streaks?

Whatever ... Jump got a 620 streak in the BattleHall ( still standing ) and the guy got a 6579 winstreak in the DoubleHall...UFF!

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The thread is talking about custom generated pokemon, and being impressed with records about 200 in Battle Frontier without them. They looked down on giving 252 EVs to all stats, but seem to be okay skipping RNG for flawless, legal mons.

The thread is talking about custom generated pokemon, and being impressed with records about 200 in Battle Frontier without them. They looked down on giving 252 EVs to all stats, but seem to be okay skipping RNG for flawless, legal mons.

They talked about using OP Smeargle, but no details on the set.

Thread is from 2009 so before the Durant trick.

Bunch of thread is also talking about related irl playgroup meetups.

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On the hand it's possible but that doesn't matter because EVEN with max ev's on each stat Smeargle is still weak and slow .. on the other hand I guess the Smeargles had a ChoiceScarf with a OHKO move and a 100% hitting cheat.....but against Sturdy the strategy will fail.....blargh whatever thanks for answering anyway and you too thesynchrohero.

I reached 105 wins with my new Platinum battle tower team which I'll post later

Nothing much to explain. ChoiceSpecs STAB WaterSpout sucks. Electric / Grass pokes will attack Blastoise which means that I need good teammates like Zapdos or Garchomp. 136 Sp.Attack with ChoiceSpecs means 204 Sp.Attack. With HelpingHand support from Smeargle WaterSpout destroys nearly everything without a resistance or DrySkin/WaterAbsorb. HP Grass ONLY if the first two pokes have a resistance against WaterSpout or have DrySkin/WaterAbsorb. WaterPulse is just a filler because it will make a lot of damage with Torrent & ChoiceSpecs but I guess I won't use it often. I don't have FlashCanon because it's an useless move and won't do much damage. IceBeam is simple for Grass and Dragon type pokes.

Great counter against Electric pokes which is the main reason why I wanted to use it. If I'm going to attack with Earthquake I will switch to Zapdos because of his immunity against Ground attacks. RockSlide for Ice pokes. Just 95% chance that it will hit but StoneEdge isn't better with the 20% miss chance. Except that RockSlide hits two pokes and not just one (if RockSlide doesn't miss). Outrage/Earthquake for STAB. YacheBerry to survive Ice attacks (first time I used YacheBerry on it). Protect gives me more options if Pokes attack me with IceBeam while Zapdos is KO'ing the dangerous threats

I chose Zapdos because DisQuake combo is really cool and useful and with the Paralyze chance even more! If I'm going to use Discharge I'll switch my other poke into Garchomp because of his immunity against Electric. HeatWave against Ice and Grass pokes. I use ChoiceScarf to outspeed all pokes in the BattleTower but I was to lazy to Re - ev train it because I wanted 213 Speed to outspeed Timid Electrode . I don't have HP Ice because mostly Garchomp will beat Dragons with STAB Outrage. I don't now if I should switch SignalBeam for AirCutter because it's STAB (55 + STAB = 82,5), hits both pokes and has a high CriticalHit chance but just like RockSlide a 5% to miss....

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105 wins right now. The 182 wins was a other team which I won't post. I had a lot of few calls against Walrein and Lapras....except that Walrein avoided two SpecsHPGrass from my Blastoise in a row and killed my Blastoise with a OHKO move .... but I killed the Walrein with a CriticalHit Thunderbolt and killed Tentacruel and Slowbro but the last pokemon was Gatrodon which would have end my streak because I was locked into Thunderbolt and if Gastrodon would have frozen or CH'ed my Garchomp with IceBeam I would have lost but that didn't happen and I killed it with Earthquake and Outrage.

Notes:
- The general strategy is to detect on turn 1 with Yanmega most of the time, unless I'm up against a Psychic trainer with pokes slower than mine. Terrakion will either hit hard turn 1 or protect. After that it's just a matter of hitting hard and protecting/detecting when appropriate.
- I have also tried Muscle Band, Expert Belt and White Herb (to remove the effects of Initimidate and Close Combat defence drops) but overall Focus Sash seems to be the best fit.
- I probably don't switch as much as I should but the defensive synergy is generally good. And having 3 pokes that's either a flying type or has Levitate is a nice complement to Terrakion's EQ.
- I originally had a non-RNG Rotom-W with Timid nature, EV's in Spe and Sp.A with Thunder Wave over HP Grass but it got walled by Water/Ground types (obviously) and I wanted more bulk. So I built something similar to atsync's Rotom-W and it works nicely.
- I'm least happy with Hydreigon but I wanted something to deal with Bug/Steels and Ferrothorn and also bulky Ghost types. Originally I thought of Chandelure but I didn't want the extra rock weakness (although the fighting immunity would have been nice) and then I found the Hydreigon in my PC and it seemed like a good fit. It's also nice to have a dragon type on the team too. Wise glasses is not the best item but I didn't want to be choice locked. I did try leftovers but wasn't fussed by that either. I've also considered Latios and Scizor for this position but as of yet undecided.

This is the video of the battle I lost in: 43-13910-94859

The team works well and it's quite easy to know when to protect with each poke due to good defensive synergy.

Yanmega is targetted a lot more than Terrakion due to it's frailty. I liked Yanmega, it hit surprisingly hard and after 1 speed boost with the given EV's I outsped all but the Accelgor and scarfed subway pokes.

It came out when my Terrakion was in back and by the time I got Terrakion out it had already minimised twice. A slight argument for Secret Sword perhaps? I don't think the loss in power is worth it though.

After using Eppie's Team with Tornadus, (which led me to a respectable 100+ winning streak), I saw someone talking about Clamperl team and I've been theorymoning a little.Then I decided to use this team, but I think it can be improved:
~Parasect, Adamant,Focus Sash,Dry Skin
31/31/31/0/31/31
252hp/252att/6spdef
-Rage Powder
-Spore
-Seed Bomb
-Protect

Any suggestions? Should I make Clamperl Modest, instead of Timid? I think Parasect is fine with Focus Sash, cause it guarantees me a free set up turn for Clamperl, and Parasect is always 2HKOed, if need arises. Is Gardevoir's setup ok? I will surely change ally switch, I am not using it at all.And, is there anything better from Gardevoir, that doesn't care about Clamperl's Surfs?